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Manual talks about commercial software
From: |
Kaloian Doganov |
Subject: |
Manual talks about commercial software |
Date: |
Sat, 18 Aug 2007 00:22:15 +0300 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gNewSense gnu/linux) |
The GNU `gettext' utilities manual says:
Usually, programs are written and documented in English, and use
English at execution time to interact with users. This is true
not only of GNU software, but also of a great deal of proprietary
and free software.
The last sentence gives the impression that commercial software is the
opposite of free software. This is a common confusion that should be
avoided. The opposite of free software is non-free software. (For
further reference, please see [1] and [2].)
[1] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Commercial
[2] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html
The following simple patch is suggested.
--- gettext-tools/doc/gettext.texi.orig 2007-08-17 23:54:43.000000000 +0300
+++ gettext-tools/doc/gettext.texi 2007-08-18 00:17:04.000000000 +0300
@@ -529,7 +529,7 @@
Usually, programs are written and documented in English, and use
English at execution time to interact with users. This is true
-not only of GNU software, but also of a great deal of commercial
+not only of GNU software, but also of a great deal of non-free
and free software. Using a common language is quite handy for
communication between developers, maintainers and users from all
countries. On the other hand, most people are less comfortable with
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- Manual talks about commercial software,
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